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Adam's ancestors : race, religion, and the politics of human origins /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Livingstone, David N., 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Human evolution.
Human beings > Origin.
Theological anthropology.
Ethnology > Religious aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings : questioning the mosaic record
  • Heresy : Isaac La Peyrere and the pre-Adamite scandal
  • Polity : the cultural politics of the Adamic narrative
  • Apologetics : pre-Adamism and the harmony of science and religion
  • Anthropology : Adam, Adamites, and the science of ethnology
  • Ancestors : evolution and the birth of Adam
  • Bloodlines : pre-Adamism and the politics of racial supremacy
  • Shadows : the continuing legacy of pre-Adamite discourse
  • Dimensions : concluding reflections.